A Chinese Export famille-rose charger circa 1745

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Description

diameter 15 1/4 in. (38.7cm)

painted with an extensive Chinese river landscape reserved within a leaf-shaped panel on a dense gilt-foliate ground, the rim with a Meissen-style gilt scrollwork border. Some minor rubbing.

Provenance

Property of the Metropolitan Musuem of Art, sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., April 29, 1981, lot 1